Watch: Documentary on Karen O’s “Stop the Virgens” Psycho-Opera

Karen O is one bad chick. Over the past decade, while she was plotting and fulfilling her domination of the international art rock scene as leader of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs – establishing herself as a fashion icon and leaving a generation of empowered young women in her wake – she had this other thing going on. It’s called “Stop the Virgens,” and it started seven years ago as a collection of work which quickly outgrew the scope of the traditional album format. When the project finally made its debut – at last year’s Creators Project in New York – it emerged as a marriage of rock music, opera, and video / multimedia spectacle rolled into one.

We’re getting ourselves greased up for the Creators Project in San Francisco this month at Fort Mason, so we were stoked to learn of a 15-minute documentary on the making of Karen O’s genre-busting project, which premiered at Creators Project NY. The film documents the material’s progression from album almost a decade ago to the uniquely chaotic and introspective experience it’s become. Hit the link to the Creators Project website to watch the documentary on Karen O’s “Stop the Virgens” psycho-opera, and let us know if you’ll be making it to the SF edition on March 17th-18th, 2012, for more cross-discipline installations and performances like this one.